Mass Effect 3’s Endings Won’t Impact Andromeda

It appears that Mass Effect 3’s highly contentious endings won’t factor into the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda. This news comes from an interview Eurogamer conducted with Bioware head Aaryon Flynn at E3 last week.

"We acknowledged it in the endings of Mass Effect 3 and I think that's where we want to leave it for now,” said Aaryon. “We want this to be a new story and it would be very hard to say it's a new story but also that you need to understand how [the past trilogy] ended."

Mass Effect: Andromeda takes place in another galaxy, as mankind has expanded out to find itself a new home. The shift in location apparently allows for all possible endings to remain canon. "We've done it in such a way that allows all of those decisions you made to remain intact in the canon of the universe, but also allows a new story to begin."

There will be callbacks to the original trilogy, however. This will be in the form of certain alien races.

Mass Effect: Andromeda is slated for a 2017 release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Comments (6)

As someone who played through all 3, the sour taste left from the abysmal ending has infact completely dampened any interest I had in the series and will more than likely skip the new iteration completely.

21 June 2016, 02:07 PMReply to KatalystaKaosAs someone who played through all 3, the sour taste left from the abysmal ending has infact completely dampened any interest I had in the series and will more than likely skip the new iteration completely.